The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-07-28
Duty of the Democratic Party.
New York Herald.

oiOoH Cut duu luIcTeStlilS I6Fi0W duu
forecast of the situation.
He believes that in 1888 Mr..
Cleveland will be the nominee on
the one side and Mr.. Blaine on the
other; that the campaign of the re-
publicans will be conducted on the
basis of the bloody shirt once more
and a passionate appeal to the peo-
pie, the object of which will be to
get the South and North at logger
heads and to slip into the White
House during the quarrel; that the
campaign of the democrats will be
conducted on the basis of a united
country reaching from the lakes to
the Gulf, and on the necessity of tar
if reform in some shape-a tariffre
form radical enough to stop the in.
flow of a demoralizing surplus into
the already bursting vaults of the
Treasury, aud consequent relief to
the business interest of the country.
We congratulate ourselves that
the brilliant Kentucky editor and
the Herald will fight in the same
regiment. Wehave long been ham.
mering atthis enormous and increas.
ing surplus as political crime.
One hundred and twenty-five
millions distracted from the people
when the government has no use for
it is simply robbery under form of
law. The government not only
does not want the money, but is Sc
riously embarrassed by it's possess
sion. The people do want it for
the proper conduct of their bus
mess. Unless Congress at it's next
session shall fairly and squarely
meet the issue and devise some
means by which this perilous influx
can be stopped our merchants will
begin to look with alarm to their
future.
Now, then, what can the Demo-
cratic party dos In the first place,
its factions must unite. It's pros
poets are good, and more than good,
but the price of success is is unity.
1t is we'll equipped for national work,
bat its leaders must stand shoulder
to shoulder. Differences of opinion
as to methods must give way to a
determination to accomplish the
end. Its aim should be to put itself
before the country on a big and
popular issue. If that issue is the
removal of the peoples tax burden,
an immediate reduction of the reve-
nue. in some shape or other, it need
have no fear of the result. The great
body of the people, including a
large contingent of the Republicans,
are more than satisfied with the
present Democratic administration.
1t means caution, stability and pros
perity. And the great body of the
people, including a majority of the
Republicans, are tired of this ever
lasting chatter about the bloody
shirt, with all that the words imply.
They are disguised with the futile
threats of violence and the sickly
palsies of Fairchild. 1t, therefore,
the administration takes its position
definitely on the necessity of reduc-
ing taxation, and the Democratic
party backs it up by redeeming the
! pledges it has already made, the
/ Waterloo of 1883 will be reserved
for ''our friends the enemy"
/ The Democrats, if they have the
grit to face the music and the grace
to make mutual concessions on the
tariff question will command the
respect and receive the votes of the
people. But they must give up this
futile guerilla warfare and fight in
one solid army corps. IF they meet
in caucus, resolved at any hazard to
find some ground of agreement,
they can go TO the Fittieth Congress
and make record. If Mr. Randall
or any one else is inclined to kick
unless he can have his own way, lie,
theparty occupy such a position that
the kicker will be made conspicuous
If the people want tariff reform, as
they certainly do, and it is clearly
shown that they can't have it be
cause Mr.. Randall makes an OBJ
structive coalition with the Repub
licans, it will not take them long t.
make a few plain and forcible re
. marks, and every politician knows
that when the people have the foo
it is necessary for him to sit down
listen and thereafter govern hilnsel
accordingly.
i Aud, as Mr.. Waterson says, whel
', the Democratic party has expressed
!. an honest and square determination
!, By Congressional vote to reliev
!. the people of their burdens, then lie
it express itself in its national plat
!, | form in the most emphatic manner
Then the country will see that tn
difference between the Democrat
and the Republicans is that the fol
9 mer are working in the interests q
/ business prosperity, while the latte
g stand for bloody shirt, few pa